remembrance
re·mem·brance/ɹɪˈmɛm.bɹəns/noun, verb
remembrance is spelled R-E-M-E-M-B-R-A-N-C-E, 3 syllables: re·mem·brance. The wrong spelling people search most is rememberance: about 550 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Remembrance is a noun meaning “The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection”. The plural of remembrance is remembrances.
How many letters and syllables are in remembrance?
| Letters | 11: R-E-M-E-M-B-R-A-N-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: re·mem·brance |
| In writing | 4.1 times per million words; the 12,764th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, rememberance, about 550 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell remembrance?
Remembrance is spelled R-E-M-E-M-B-R-A-N-C-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for remembrance in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is remembrance?
Remembrance appears 4.1 times per million words in written English, the 12,764th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce remembrance?
- UK /ɹɪˈmɛm.bɹəns/
Remembrance has 3 syllables, split re·mem·brance in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-remembrance.ogg, En-au-remembrance.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of remembrance
- remembrances plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- remembrancing participle, present
- remembranced participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does remembrance mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.
For Titan, by the mightly Loſs [of Phaëthon] diſmay'd, / Among the Heav'ns th'Immortal Fact diſplay'd, / Leſt the remembrance of his Grief ſhould fail, / And in Conſtellations wrote his Tale. [Translation of a work by Claudian.]
- 2
The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory, recollection.
Yes, and did ſee ſuch things there, the remembrance of which will ſtick by me as long as I live; ſpecially three things, to wit, How Chriſt, in deſpite of Satan, maintains his work of Grace in the heart; how the Man had ſinned himſelf quite
- 3
Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.
- 4
obsoleteSomething which serves to remember; a memento, a memorial, a souvenir, a token; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered.
[stanza I] A Gentle Knight was pricking on the Plain, / Yclad in mightie Arms and ſilver Shield, […] / [stanza II] And on his Breaſt a bloody Croſs he bore, / The dear remembrance of his dying Lord, / For whoſe ſweet ſake that glorious Badg
- 5
archaicThe power of remembering or the period over which one's memory extends.
- 6
obsoleteSomething to be remembered, such as an admonition, counsel, instruction.
verb
- 1
To remember; to recall to mind.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Remembrance in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | recuerdo , recordatorio, remembranza |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does remembrance come from?
From Middle English remembraunce, from Old French remembrance, from remembrer (“to remember”), from Late Latin rememorārī (“to call to mind, to remember”). Equivalent to remember + -ance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).